Andy Vila's mother remembers her son as a bright, rebellious child who enjoyed Harry Potter books and dressing up as the U.S. president. But when he began to embrace the same ideology his family had fled in socialist Cuba, she pleaded in vain for ...

Donald Trump once saw a country that had lost its greatness — its cities racked with crime, its borders a pathetic sieve, its leadership corrupt, its standing in the world a joke. "The American dream," he said, "is dead."
In contrast he praised the fruits ...

In a remarkable political repudiation, the Democratic-led U.S. House voted Tuesday night to condemn President Donald Trump's racist tweets targeting four congresswomen of color, despite protestations by Trump's Republican congressional allies and his own insistence he hasn't "a racist bone in my body."
Two days ...

Defiant in the face of widespread criticism, U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his belligerent call for four Democratic congresswomen of color to get out of the country "right now," cementing his position as the most willing U.S. leader in generations to stoke the discord ...

Migrants held at a border patrol station in Texas were being kept in "horrifying" conditions that included psychological abuse and being told to drink out of toilets, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said after a visit to the facility with other U.S. lawmakers on Monday.
A delegation ...

Environmental legislation dubbed a Green New Deal championed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has drawn widespread attention — despite the fact that no one really knows for sure what it is.
Now, as Ocasio-Cortez prepares to release a blueprint, details are emerging.
"Next week, we plan to ...

Freshman Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended her ambitious, progressive policy proposals and sometimes combative presence on social media as risky but worth it, saying it is "great" to be underestimated by her opponents.
In a wide-ranging interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired Sunday night, the ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez began her term as the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress with a bang by proposing to tax the ultrarich at 60 or 70 percent.
The daughter of hardscrabble working-class parents, the 29-year-old New Yorker was working toward making good on ...

An attempt to discredit new U.S. congresswoman and leftist poster child Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a video of her dancing as a student backfired spectacularly on Friday, triggering eye rolls and a barrage of whimsical memes.
The 30-second clip of a younger Ocasio-Cortez, now 29, strutting ...

Democratic rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made history Tuesday as the youngest woman elected to Congress, riding a wave of minority women reaching office and cementing her place as a prominent voice on the left of U.S. politics.
"We have made history tonight," the grinning 29-year-old ...